Aingeal Clare

Aingeal Clare lives in Hull.

Outcanoevre: Alice Oswald

Aingeal Clare, 23 March 2006

Alice Oswald, though she may not seem it at first, is an opinionated poet of ideas, and her poetry is ambitious in both form and scope. She writes taut poems about nature but refuses to call them ‘nature poems’. Her work is ‘full of hymns’, as Elizabeth Bishop said of her own, as well as pagan shouts and birdcalls. Oswald paints wild, stormy miniatures through which...

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